{"id":165141,"date":"2023-06-04T17:14:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/?p=165141"},"modified":"2023-06-04T17:15:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T15:15:38","slug":"dominant-novak-into-record-17th-rg-quarter-final-14th-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/news\/tennis\/dominant-novak-into-record-17th-rg-quarter-final-14th-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Novak into record 17th RG quarter-final, 14th in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>World no.3 Novak Djokovic advanced into record 17th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roland-Garros<\/a> quarter-final with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory against 94th-ranked Juan Pablo Varillas on Court Philippe-Chatrier on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-time French Open champion eased passed the Peruvian after one hour and 57 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Novak dominated his rival with two breaks of serve in each set, converting six of his 12 break point opportunities. He saved two of the three break points he faced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere was great energy on the court, from the crowd and myself as well,\u201d<\/strong> said Nole. <strong>\u201cI really enjoyed it, my best performance in the tournament so far. It came exactly at the right time, as I\u2019m coming in to the second week and obviously &#8211; playing another quarter-final, the matches are going to get tougher. Bigger challenges, but I like the way I\u2019m playing and the way I\u2019m feeling, so I look forward to a new challenge.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Match statistics: aces (7-3), double faults (3-0), winners (35-15), unforced errors (20-23), total points won (88-54).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Djokovic, the 22-time Grand Slam titlist, next takes on Karen Khachanov (8-1 H2H record).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 11th seed from Russia defeated Lorenzo Sonego in four sets.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: Profimedia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World no.3 advanced into record 17th Roland-Garros quarter-final with a 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 victory against 94th-ranked Juan Pablo Varillas from Peru. Djokovic next takes on Karen Khachanov (8-1 H2H record).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":165138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[93,101011211,101010469,101012260,101013338],"class_list":["post-165141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-fourth-round","tag-french-open-en","tag-grand-slam-en-2","tag-paris-en","tag-roland-garros-2023-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165145,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165141\/revisions\/165145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novakdjokovic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}